Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

I love bummer songs.

Ben Gibbard

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

Dave Brubeck

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Larry Bird

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

George Chapman

You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.

Courtney Thorne Smith

War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Charles Caleb Colton

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Mark Twain

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

George Bernard Shaw

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

Madame de Stael

Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.

Marsha Blackburn

I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.

Sarah McLachlan

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

Aneurin Bevan